Denis B.
The harshest realisation for me after we’ve got LLMs is that there is no such thing as “good code”. Everybody’s code sucks. You can always take seemly good code and find bugs and improve the design, and this process doesn’t seem to converge. The goal I was chasing my whole career turned out to be a marriage: the closer you get, the further it appears. But LLMs allowed me to prove this empirically, so now I’m more at peace with my code. If it works after sufficient testing, I leave it alone; not because it’s “good” but because it’s good enough. P.S. I ran Astra on this famous John Carmack’s code and it found five verifiable bugs.
